Slavery
| Slavery link (social control) | |
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 Painter Giulio Rosati depicting the Arab slave trade. | |
| Slavery is the most blatant of abusive relationships. Slaves are denied rights and freedoms, most notably the freedom to escape the relationship. They are de facto, if not de jure, property of their masters. |
Slavery is when a person is forced to work and can not quit, at the same time being treated as property. While officially abolished, it is continued as forced labor to this day.
History
Historically, enslavement was a typical outcome of military defeat, and a reason to join or support an army. Slavery was often a feature of civilization and legal in most societies; now outlawed in all countries of the world except as punishment for crime.
Utility
Slavery was used in colonies with relatively small human populations compared to their size. In densely populated areas, the preferred method of social control was land ownership.[1]
Rationale
In 1708 the UK British Board of Trade proclaimed it {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Slavery |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=British Board of Trade|+sep=, |Has text=“absolutely necessary that a trade (slavery) so beneficial to the kingdom should be carried on to the greatest advantage.” |Is about=Slavery,|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=1708 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=https://archive.org/stream/capitalismandsla033027mbp/capitalismandsla033027mbp_djvu.txt }}“absolutely necessary that a trade (slavery) so beneficial to the kingdom should be carried on to the greatest advantage.” [2]
Modern Forms
Debt slavery
- Full article: Debt slavery
- Full article: Debt slavery
Keeping individuals as debt slaves is generally illegal. However, many modern nation states have accrued such debt that this is a description of their condition
Wage slavery
- Full article: Wage slavery
- Full article: Wage slavery
While, officially, slavery is illegal, wage slavery is not.
“Unpaid labor”
“Unpaid labor” is exacted from some elements of the US prison population.
Abolition
Slavery, as a practice, was legally banned in Mauritania in 1981,[3] as the last country in the world (although it was not a crime to own a slave until 2007).
Prevalence
Anti-Slavery International reports a high degree of correlation between nation state's foreign debt and the prevalence of slavery. They report that modern slaves are far cheaper, in real terms, than ever.